Pat Gillick Quotes
Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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The Flight 93 Memorial isn't that easy to get to. It isn't like the memorials in New York City or Washington, D.C., where you may go on a business trip or family vacation. No, in order to get to Shanksville, PA, you fly to Pittsburgh, make your way through the traffic and onto the highway that takes you through the beautiful wooded countryside.
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My mum's amazing - every time I achieve something in my career, she buys me a diamond earring.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
